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The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-05-03 · 79 min · 15,083 words

Is It Possible to Change Your Entire Personality?

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You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show. Go to skeptic.com slash magazine to order your subscription or even any of the back issues all the way back to 1993 when we actually 92, what am I saying? When we first began, so cool. All right, my guest today is Olga Kazan. Am I pronouncing that right?

Kazan? I usually say Hazan. Hazan. Oh, okay. The the K is soft.

Yes. Anyway, she's a staff writer for The Atlantic and author of Weird, The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World. Okay, we'll get to that maybe later. She's written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She's a two-time recipient of journalism fellowships.

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